A Daily Reid: a trashy, not classy, White House

Trump threw what looked like a nazi recruitment bash at the White House for his birthday and the guy who once called him "maybe America's Hitler" went on The View

Remember when someone threw trash bags out of the White House second floor?

Clearly, it was a metaphor for the second Trump regime.

It’s time to retire the word “ghetto,” since it has lost its meaning in the present era. No need, friends, to use phrases like “white trash” or “trailer trash” either, which are both demeaning to decent, working class white folks just minding their business, and which are also irrelevant, now that Donald Trump has turned the White House into that house in the nice neighborhood that ruins everyone else’s property values because the guy renting it keeps busted vehicles he’s supposedly “fixing” in the front yard, alongside a constantly barking, half-starved pit bull tied to a tree by a thick, steel chain, an unused workout bench, and loads of cigarettes strewn across the unkempt lawn.

I’ve seen enough. I’m coining the phrase “MAGA trash.” And we, the American people, could use a forceful HOA.

Our U.S. Capitol Homeowners Association could start by firing whoever Dementia Don hired to paint the meant to be gray Reflecting Pool “swimming pool blue” for no reason other than Trump’s tackiness, leaving it filled with floating glops of algae.

Perhaps not unlike Trump’s brain.

The sheer tackiness of this regime was partially alleviated this past weekend by the removal — at long last — of Trump’s unwanted surname from the face of the Kennedy Center (though the building remains cloaked in what looks like a burial shroud because apparently, if he can’t have it, no one will.)

But undeterred, our crypto grifter in chief threw himself a birthday bash complete with flying motorcycles, splattering blood, a cage erected in front of the White House, a literal fist fight on the White House grounds, a bunch of preening beta males in tights kicking and punching each other unconscious, and this:

… with barely a peep from the same people who lose their minds if you imply that the current first lady is what her non-artistic nudes might well imply. Except for some reason I can’t explain, Lindsey Graham and mildly, Trump’s UFC business partner, Dana White. (BTW, the fighters who participated in the spectacle will be paid in crypto, issued by Trump’s company. In other words, their payment in the end will likely be zero.)

And of course, Diaper Don fell asleep.

Because of course. It was way past his shit-posting and golf time.

And while Trump couldn’t deliver the stars, to his ratchet bloody cage match, or to his now canceled “pick me” concert, former president Barack Obama will be surrounded by A list stars all this week and weekend at the opening of his presidential library. Among them: Stevie Wonder, Bruce Springsteen, U2’s Bono and The Edge, The Roots, Christina Aguilera, Jennifer Hudson, John Legend, Eddie Vedder from Pearl Jam, Marc Anthony, Common, Tems, and actress Marsai Martin.

Sorry Donald, you’re not invited. But the Obamas said you’re welcome to a tour, whenever you can take time off from sleeping, golfing, grifting and posting to your Temu Twitter.

And what stars are not in Chicago will be in New York City on Thursday for the Knicks first-ever ticker tape parade and presentation of the key to the city. Believe it or not, the team did not get a parade when they won their championships in 1970 and 1973. Which is WILD. BTW Trump is also not invited to that, as far as I know.

JD Vance is still an asshole

On Tuesday, The View smelled of sulfur …

I truly wish the show would have been able to make him watch a montage like this one:

Instead, we all got to cringe watch James David’s answer to Whoopi Goldberg’s and Sunny Hostin’s questions about the erasure of Black history by citing crime statistics in majority Black D.C., because that’s not a racist thing to do at all…

That might be the most incoherently racist thing I’ve heard since the last time I forced myself to watch or listen to JD Vance.

I hope his brown wife is proud.

Odds and ends

Stephen Colbert made Paramount give money to his favorite charity by violating the copyright of the classic Peanuts theme during his epic closing episode of The Late Show.

On his last day hosting CBS’s The Late Show, Stephen Colbert played one of the most iconic songs from the Peanuts soundtrack.

“Oh no! I hope this doesn’t cost CBS any money!” he joked, as Louis Cato and the Great Big Joy Machine performed the song, titled Linus and Lucy, on air. It was a final dig at the network, which many fans believe cancelled the show due to Colbert’s criticisms of the Trump administration.

It did, indeed, cost CBS. Lee Mendelson Film Productions, the California company that controls jazz pianist Vince Guaraldi’s famed Peanuts catalog and had become increasingly litigious over unauthorized uses of the music, announced it had reached a licensing agreement with CBS for an undisclosed amount. The production company said it would donate all proceeds to World Central Kitchen, the disaster-relief food nonprofit founded by chef José Andrés.

Colbert also donated $2.5m to World Central Kitchen during the penultimate episode of the Late Show.

Brilliant work.

The folks at The New York Times really, really want you to know that Jeffrey Epstein totally committed suicide. Nothing more to see here.

Except for the victims, there are serious questions as to why they held so much information for their book, instead of sharing it with the women who desperately need closure.)

The World Cup already has a “white power” controversy.

But it also has Team DRC, showing the world how fashion is done.

Photos of the Democratic Republic of Congo World Cup football team, from Essence

And guess who’s headed to ViewerCon??? The same lady who called Trump an “orange asshole…” Get more info on ViewerCon here! (Hint: it’s like ComicCon, but for TV shows…)

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